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Reader's Musical Gets World Orchestral Premiere
Winner of the 2000 Independent Publisher Book Award for Best Children's Audio to be performed by prestigious youth orchestra.
America's Number One Youth Orchestra, The Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra (ASYO), has announced that it will perform the World Orchestral Premiere of the award-winning reader's musical book The Journey of Sir Douglas Fir (ISBN# 0-9670160-0-2) on March 4, 2001, in Atlanta Symphony Hall at the Woodruff Arts Center. P.B.S. is reportedly taping the show for later broadcast as a one-hour children's special,The ASYO is an all-star collection of Georgia high school musicians, Jere Flint Conductor, who perform family concerts in association with the Atlanta Symphony Master Orchestra. This past June, the ASYO marked their 25th Anniversary by winning the NPR Battle of the Bands at the National Youth Orchestra Festival in Sarasota, Florida.
According to Flint, "We have been looking for years to introduce a children's symphonic piece that would mix a contemporary score with a wonderful story, and we finally found one. The story is spellbinding,...and the music and lyrics just delightful."
The Journey of Sir Douglas Fir, winner of the 2000 Independent Publisher Book Award for Best Children's Audio, is the fanciful, music-filled account of an actual Canadian event in which a real Douglas fir is blown over in a storm, then survives to achieve a surprising destiny. It is the first Broadway-style musical written with literary prose, and the first offering by new children's publisher Sir Fir Books & Music of Atlanta, Georgia.
Joining the ASYO in concert will be a full musical cast and a GRAMMY Foundation( chorus supplied the popular Atlanta chapter, which includes professionals alongside elementary and middle school choirs from The GRAMMY Foundation's Leonard Bernstein Center for Learning(.
The Journey of Sir Douglas Fir is the first children's musical book and symphonic concert to earn an endorsement from the prestigious GRAMMY organization.